Menues, pictures, formating not showing (2 posts)

I built my own LAMP server and have installed worpress on it. none of the formatting of the themes or anything shows up. also when I update or install themes it messed around and couldnt make directories, then I changed the file permissions and its ok now. why is this happening?

and I check the phpmyadmin section. any reson why this might be happening? when I first install the wordpress. the original layout and everything loaded properly (format, pictures). but when I clicked update on it, it got messed up cause my ftp wasn't fully good to go. but now it is.